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At least three Israeli raids targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday morning, as reported by Lebanon’s official National News Agency, and came after the Israeli army issued a new evacuation warning for some neighborhoods in the area. , hours after a similar warning.
Pictures from Agence France-Presse showed smoke rising from at least two sites in the south bank after the raids, which followed at least six waves of Israeli strikes since Tuesday.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency said: “Israeli enemy aircraft launched a violent attack on the southern bank – Ghobeiry district, around Rawdat al-Shahidin,” before mentioning a second attack in the same location.
The group said a “violent attack” targeted the area of ”Choueifat, especially Amrousiya”.
Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee, through his account on the “X” platform, asked the residents of the “Shuweifat Al-Amrousiyah and Ghobeiry” areas to evacuate, saying, “You are close on Hezbollah’s institutions and interests, with which the IDF works. soon.”
These new raids come after a “series of raids” at dawn on Thursday also in the underground area, according to the National Agency, which also followed another evacuation warning.
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Most of the residents of the suburb, which was home to an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people before the war, have left since Israel began launching intense attacks at the end of the war. -September. But many of them return in the morning hours to check on their homes and shops.
A year after Lebanon’s Hezbollah opened a cross-border front in support of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, on September 23, Israel intensified its raids on the party’s positions in southern and eastern Lebanon and its suburbs. south of Beirut. On August 30, they announced the start of “limited” ground operations.
After 45 days of the ground attack, Hezbollah announced on Wednesday night/Thursday that it had targeted, with a salvo of missiles, the Israeli forces on the southern outskirts of the town of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, which has a special symbolism for Hezbollah , as it is. he saw fierce battles between the party’s fighters and the army in the war of July 2006 But without Israel being able to control it.
The National Agency reported a raid by “enemy military aircraft on the city of Bint Jbeil” during the night, noting that the city had witnessed a violent night of “random raids and artillery shelling, which led to the destruction of several residential buildings and apartments. .”
Since the start of the bombing exchange between Hezbollah and Israel on October 8, 2023, more than 3,360 people have been killed in Lebanon, most of them civilians, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
The Israeli army announces that it has discovered that 10 missiles were launched from Lebanon towards the Upper Galilee
The Israeli army said it monitored the launch of 10 missiles it said were launched from Lebanon this morning at towns in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, and said it sent Iron Dome system stopped some of them.
The army also announced that a drone was launched from the east towards the Eilat region last night, and another in Syrian airspace.
On Wednesday, the army announced that six of its soldiers were killed in battles in southern Lebanon. The Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that a force from the Golani Brigade entered a house where four Hezbollah members were kidnapped.
The Broadcasting Group explained that the battles took place eight kilometers from the border of Lebanon, and that the distance between the soldiers and Hezbollah members was not. It was reported that the battle took place in the area where the army expanded its operations yesterday.
This follows the statements of Israel’s new Defense Minister Yisrael Katz during a field trip around the North, saying, “One of the goals of the war is to disarm Hezbollah.
Katz said he would not stop the war and would not end an agreement without recognizing Israel’s right to act forcefully against any violation.
Thus, the death toll of soldiers killed in the ongoing battles against Hezbollah, since the beginning of the ground attack on the territory ofLebanon on September 30, rises to 47 dead.
2024-11-14 08:36:00
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